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A compelling, innovative true crime series focused on the role of forensic science in solving some of the most perplexing crimes of our time. Looking at how examination of DNA, teeth, and insects, among other things, can be used to solve crimes.
1997
On Remembrance Day, in a wealthy suburb, a German matron is found beaten and brutally murdered. An autopsy reveals that the real cause of death is that she's been shot in such a way as to conceal this fact. Firearms expert Sam Barbetta inspects the bullets and determines that the murder weapon was homemade - the bullets can't be traced!
An ex-model is found dead by her recent ex-boyfriend, Jeff. The victim is laid out on the bed fully clothed, her hands folded across her chest in an "at rest" position. Jeff allegedly gets another shock when he finds the message "Jeff You're Next' scrawled in lipstick across the living room mirror. Investigators discover that Jeff had intended to move out that day.
Shortly after a young working student moves into a new apartment, she suspects someone has been visiting when she's not there. To quell her suspicions, she places a bottle just inside the door as she leaves for work. When she returns, the chain is still on the door, but the bottle has been moved. She gets the shock of a lifetime when a stranger is found dead in her bathtub.
Two men are shot and killed in a botched robbery at a local community centre after catching two thieves in the act. The murders occur in the boiler room. One of the bullets has pierced a drum of purple air conditioning fluid and so the floor is a wet, sticky mess of blood and purple fluid.
Dr. Cheryl Wagner treats her first ever female patient with AIDS. Only days later she treats a second woman with the same affliction...then, a third. Incredibly, all are infected by the same man. At Dr. Wagner's insistence, public health officials issue a restraining order, forbidding the man from having sex. He then infects another woman
It happened on a native reserve in Southern Ontario. That's where two masked men broke into a house in the middle of the night. Living there were a husband and wife who owned a profitable gas station/restaurant. When their demands for money aren't complied to quickly enough, the masked men open fire, grab the money and flee.
When women are being drugged and sexually assaulted, a forensic toxicologist wrestles with his own integrity to nail the disgusting culprit.
A man drives 20 minutes along a super-highway and then murders his mother-in-law, allegedly while sleepwalking. Can a sleep expert determine if this is a bogus defense?
When a leg bone washes ashore, a forensic pathologist holds the key to the five W's (who, what, where, when and why) of the mystery.
Experts from documents and chemistry become the arbitrators on whether a cheque and a lottery ticket are genuine of forgeries.
When a vivacious cheerleader is murdered and sexually assaulted, DNA profiling helps investigators exonerate the innocent and convict the guilty in a 13-year-old case.
Just as a woman is about to be cremated after a traffic fatality, a blood spatter analysis is needed to determine if it really was an accident.
When a Montreal co-ed is murdered, and no suspect is found, a criminal profiler sheds new light on a dark crime.
A geneticist and feline expert match a pet cat's DNA to the hairs on the jacket of a murdered woman.
A man identified as a serial killer is tried in a case of homicide by alcohol poisoning.
A young Asian student is raped and murdered in the apartment she shares with her sister. The killer has left a minute trace of himself in the apartment. His identity is a complete mystery. Who could have killed this innnocent girl and why? Forensic fingerprinting points to a suspect but it will be tears that close the case.
A family is found murdered in their home. They have been sealed up in their suburban house for over a week. The police come upon a ghastly scene. There is no sign of forced entry. Is this a burglary gone terribly awry or something more sinister? Forensic entomology, bloodstain analysis and computer analysis will draw a net around the killer.
Two teenage girls are ambushed by a man wielding a baseball bat. He wants to party. The girls resist but in the struggle, one girl is beaten and left in a coma and the other is raped and murdered, her body dumped in the nearby river. As police mobilise their investigation, the killer taunts them by telephone. For months, the killer eludes the police and terrorises the town.
When a young man goes missing and his wallet is found near Algonquin Park, his sister and mother call it murder, but without evidence, the police must deem him a "missing person." From interviews with relatives, it looks like the young man wanted to get away - he was on parole, his marriage had broken up, and his father's suicide still haunted him.
On Victoria Day as fireworks are going off, someone is on a killing spree. The next morning, three prostitutes are found shot dead. One is a transvestite, one is a transsexual and the third is a woman. The bullets from each killing prove to come from the same gun.
Ronald Dalton has an idyllic life - a loving marriage, three beautiful children and a solid career in banking. But in one night, all that is ripped away from him. His wife dies under unusual circumstances and the forensic pathologist says it is murder by strangulation.
In this special one-hour episode, a labour dispute at the Giant gold mine in Yellowknife has the town divided. After months on strike, tensions reach a boiling point when replacement workers are brought in and union members begin crossing the line. When nine miners are killed down in the mine, forensic experts establish the explosion is deliberate - this is murder!
When a respected gallery owner suspects he is being scammed, he calls in the police. He has been sold a painting by a well-known artist that he fears is a fake. The detective on the case undertakes a crash course in the colourful world of art; a world with its dark side of master thieves and fraud artists.
On a cool November evening, a young woman walks home from the bus stop through a local park. Suddenly, she is approached by a man. He politely asks her if she dropped any money. But before she can respond, he grabs her and drags her off the path, where he sexually assaults her. This begins a week of terror for three more unsuspecting women.
The murder of a suburban teenager leads investigators into the dark world of punks and skinheads.
A young woman is found dead with a bite mark on her body. Can a forensic dentist help them track down her obsessed killer?
Maggots that have eaten away the face of an unknown victim could turn out to be the key to solving the brutal murder.
A son battles his stepmother for a $2, 000, 000 will. Can science reveal the truth about a dead man's final wishes?
Maggots that have eaten away the face of an unknown victim could turn out to be the key to solving the brutal murder.
When the skull of a young woman is unearthed, it leads police and scientists to a 50 year old murder mystery.
Two men who kill a gun shop owner and steal a cache of handguns begin a crime spree that terrorizes a city. How will science turn the weapons back on the killers?
Accident, murder or suicide? Forensics tell the gruesome tale of the Solar Temple cult and their belief that death by fire would lead to rebirth on the planet Sirius.
The crooks are their own worst enemies in this absolutely perfect crime gone wrong.
A headless corpse baffles police and shocks a community. It is up to an astute pathologist to lead investigators to the brutal murderer.
For twenty five years a woman receives the sympathy of family and friends for the tragic sudden deaths of each of her five small children. Can good forensic science expose bad medical science to solve an unthinkable crime?
A headless corpse baffles police and shocks a community. It is up to an astute pathologist to lead investigators to the brutal murderer.
Graham Greene
Self - Host
